Pulse core

For the better type of pulse core, see Advanced pulse core.

Pulse core was removed after an update. The contents of this page no longer exist in RuneScape, and this article is kept for historical purposes.

Pulse core
Detailed
Release	7 April 2015 (Update)
Removal	19 June 2015 (Update)
Members	No
Members	No
Quest item	No
Quest item	No
Tradeable	No
Tradeable	No
Equipable	Yes
Equipable	Yes
Stackable	Yes
Stackable	Yes
Disassembly	No
Disassembly	No
Value	1 coin
Value	1 coin
Alchemy	Not alchemisable
Alchemy	Not alchemisable
Destroy	Are you sure you want to destroy your Treasure Hunter prize? You cannot reclaim it.
On death	Always kept outside Wild
Exchange	Not sold
Weight	0 kg
Examine	A powerful item that grants double XP while active. Once consumed it will explode granting an XP bonus to everyone around you.

Pulse cores are items obtained from Treasure Hunter, and were also purchasable from Vic the trader during April 2015. They can also be obtained by combining two essence of wisdom from past Treasure Hunter promotions into one pulse core. After the update on 19 June 2015, existing pulse cores were replaced with advanced pulse cores with the message: "Your pulse cores have been upgraded to new and improved advanced pulse cores."

Combat Stats

Requirements						Tier
None						None
Class			Slot			Attributes
None						Armour				0
						Life points				0
Weapons		Main		Off		Prayer				0
Damage		-		-		Damage reduction
Accuracy		-		-		PvM: 0%			PvP: 0%
Style		-				Style bonuses
Range		-				0		0		0
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Effects

A player's pulse core explodes while fletching.

Each pulse core has 4,168–17,204 (depending on total level) bonus experience that is granted in whatever skill is being trained whilst it's equipped. Once the bonus experience charge has run out, the core will explode, granting a 2% experience bonus to all players in the vicinity for 10 minutes. An exploding pulse core might also randomly grant a skill level boost to a group of skills or restore some life or Prayer points for the surrounding players. The experience boost stacks with each exploded core, to a cap of 10% bonus experience. The holder doesn't benefit from these bonuses.

The amount of bonus experience given is only matched up to 1 pulse core, i.e. if the activity performed gives more experience than the charges on the current pulse core, a new pulse core will not be used to fill in the remaining bonus experience.

Bonus experience does not stack with pulse cores and will remain unused as long as a pulse core is wielded.

This boost shows up in the boosted stats section of the EoC interface as "Pulse Essence - x% XP Boost" where x is the current percentage boost. The boost lasts for 10 minutes, but subsequent explosions reset the 10 minute timer.

Accept Aid must be turned on or else it fails to work: "You were hit by a pulse core blast but receive no benefit as Accept Aid is currently turned off."

A blue ring of particles expands from the holder when the item explodes. This ring rapidly dissipates, and purple rings expand from those within the activation's area of effect. The purple ring is only visible to the affected player and the holder, whereas the blue ring is visible to all players in the area.

Temporary skill boosts

Pulse cores offer temporary boosts in skills aligned to an Expert cape of Accomplishment.

Category of boost	Skills boosted
Artisan	Cooking, Construction, Crafting, Firemaking, Fletching, Herblore, Runecrafting and Smithing.
Combatant	Attack, Constitution, Defence, Magic, Prayer, Ranged, Strength and Summoning.
Gatherer	Divination, Farming, Fishing, Hunter, Mining and Woodcutting.
Support	Agility, Dungeoneering, Slayer and Thieving.

The Gatherer skills are boosted by 10 levels, except Farming and Hunter. All the skills in the other categories are boosted by 7 levels.

Trivia

• Its appearance is likely based on the common cross section models of celestial bodies.